supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-YW-106);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No. 40772018);National Basic Research Pro-gram of China (Grant No. 2006CB806400).
Hominin fossils are the most important materials for exploring questions about human origins and evolution. Because human fossils are very rare, it is impossible to use highly destructive techniques in order to study ...
the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sci-ences (Grant No. KZCX2-YW-106);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40772018); the Major Basic Research Projects (Grant No. 2006CB806400) ;the International Cooperation Program of MST of China (Grant No. 2007DFB20330)
The Liujiang cranium is the most complete and well-preserved late Pleistocene human fossils ever unearthed in south China. Because the endocranial cavity is filled with hard stone matrix, earlier stud- ies focused onl...